My first attempt at making some $$ online - Goal of $20/day

Ok, so I'm a mid 20's Guy living in London, I've got some debt that I really need to deal with, I'm also looking for a second source of income to provide some added stability, eventually moving into earning a full time income online. I'm interested in developing sustainable, longterm online businesses, but it seems that I could bootstrap it with potential income from some of the methods I'm learning about on BHW!

My main job is as a UX designer for mobile apps and I also produce TV programs for international broadcasters, so I've got experience working to tight deadlines, making pragmatic decisions and delivering good, well thought out product. I also know my way around Final Cut Pro X, so producing video should be simple.

.... However my day job isn't bringing in the ££ I need!

So, I'm planning on getting going using YT & PPD. I've got a few niche's in mind, but it seems that the YT & PPD model seems to work best for purely digital 'products', so I'm not sure that my niche ideas are relevant at the moment, but I'm a smart guy, so I'll figure it out.

I've seen some discussion between the benefits of using dedicated blog hosting as a landing page and link/content locking from there VS using blogger etc. I've got some hosting available and it's cheap, but domains are an initial expense I could do with out. The option is there for testing If I need it. So I'll initially be using blogger or something similar.

My Goals

My first goal is to earn at least $10 within my first 7 days. Because this will be my startup period, I expect to put in a few hours (7-10?) producing content and getting familiar with the tools. I can throw together videos in Final Cut quickly, that isn't a problem, but getting to grips with the system and how best to play the game is where I expect my time to be spent.

I realise that my initial figures I'm aiming for seem low, but I'm being realistic based on other journeys I've read. I'm also quite familiar with the 'Lean Startup' method and will be following that through testing (although I won't get too many interviews with customers! ).

My medium term goal is $100/day. If I can get there in 3-6 months I'd be very happy.

My First Day

Today I'm going to attempt to get a single YT account, ideally a PVA. I also want to start using proxies from the outset. I need to look into the PPD providers (clean files?) and also get an account setup with AdWork Media.

I also need to hone in on a few niche's, ideally three different niche's that aren't too saturated and sketch out a plan of attack for what the videos will contain and what my proposition is.

So there it is, my plan to earn $20/day. I'll be updating with info about the time I spend working on this and also my outgoings to help others get a feel for what my real investment in this venture is.

My main job is as a UX designer for mobile apps and I also produce TV programs for international broadcasters, so I've got experience working to tight deadlines, making pragmatic decisions and delivering good, well thought out product. I also know my way around Final Cut Pro X, so producing video should be simple.

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I think you are wasting your time and your knowledge with this methods to make $20/day.Maybe figuring out something easy you can do in like 5-10 minutes that people would pay $5 on fiverr its a better idea and a faster one too.Im not saying you shouldn't do it, im just saying its a bit of a waste.I do wish you good luck tho and hope you will make $20/day and you can buy all of us a round.Cheers!

I think you are wasting your time and your knowledge with this methods to make $20/day.Maybe figuring out something easy you can do in like 5-10 minutes that people would pay $5 on fiverr its a better idea and a faster one too.Im not saying you shouldn't do it, im just saying its a bit of a waste.I do wish you good luck tho and hope you will make $20/day and you can buy all of us a round.Cheers!

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I hear what you're saying, I did consider doing some stuff on fiverr & elancer, but for now I'm looking to make recurring income from as little effort as possible. With Fiverr I'm limited for $5 for every gig I do, but with PPD/CPA, If i get a hot niche, the figure can be exponential.

As the person above says, don't use PPD, CPA is a mile better, I am doing the exact same as you and today I have reached $30, I still have plenty of hours left as well. AWM is definitely the way forward, they are great. I wish you luck with your joruney

Got my first video made. I was having trouble picking a niche and knowing how to really verify how saturated it is. I was getting bogged down with picking the right thing, so I just decided to pick something, and get moving! I'm not sure how well it will perform, but I know that I can now perform, at this stage motivation and learning is more important. I'll get better at picking niches the more I do. I'm starting with a quantity over quality philosophy to begin with.

So, I've got my video made, although I had some major issue with rendering on my machine and graphics artefacts all over the video, I had to send it to a render farm at work, I also got a corrupted hard drive that I had to fix, so I lost an hour or so digging around under the hood in OSX!! All done now though

I've also created my first blogger account & drafted my headline article. I need to fill the blog with some other filler content first before I publish the main post.

I've also signed up for AWM, I'm just waiting on account verification. However I don't expect that to come until Monday/Tuesday because it's a weekend.

Finally, I've bought 20K views on Fiverr. I need to complete the purchase with the comments I want filling, so I'll finish that up once my AWM account is live.

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So, to sum up, I think I've hit my goal for day 1, I'm almost ready to launch, once I'm setup on AWM I can start pushing the video.

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